Wednesday, August 19, 2009

my creative space . right here

here is my space today ~ it's virtual and involves more clicking than anything else!am colour correcting and cleaning up scans of my work to make prints ~ which i'd love to have finished tonight. not so creative at this stage, but it's a crucial step!!

i had a little time to think whilst clicking and came to the conclusion that working in photoshop is similar to driving a manual car: hold this down for a bit, press down on this one, let the other one go , , , look at the bigger picture and notice all the small details at the same time!

i hope you have had some creative moments today :) to see more spaces or play along visit kootoyoo.

I'm always surprised at how long it takes to get a file ready to print (and print test copies, etc).

One thing that I've been doing lately with prints of drawings with slightly rough-textured marks is running them through the unsharp mask filter. It's under filters-sharpen-unsharp mask. I try to keep it somewhat subtle, but it tends to look sort of bad on screen. It makes the printed piece really sharpen up, though.

I haven't played around with photo shop as much as I'd like to. I am pretty instinctive with most software but photoshop, illustrator etc... are quite high level so I know I am not getting the most out of them. Still they are so much fun to use. It must be so fun playing and experimenting